The correct way to take ginseng is to take it internally by decocting it in soup, or boiling it in paste or adding it into pills or powder.
Ginseng is a medicinal food ingredient, which is the dried root and rhizome of ginseng in the family of Ginseng. It is sweet, slightly bitter and slightly warm. It belongs to the spleen, lung, heart and kidney meridians. The medicinal category is qi tonic.
Ginseng has the effects of tonifying vital energy, restoring the normal pulse and preventing and treating deficiency, tonifying the spleen and benefiting the lungs, generating fluids and nourishing the blood, and calming the spirit and promoting wisdom. It is clinically used for treating symptoms such as deficiency of body, cold limbs and weak pulse, deficiency of spleen, low food intake, deficiency of lung, wheezing and coughing, thirst due to injury of fluids, thirst due to internal heat (fever accompanied with symptoms such as overeating, drinking and urinating), deficiency of qi and blood, deficiency due to prolonged illness, palpitation and insomnia, impotence and cold limbs, etc. It can be taken internally to restore normal pulse.
Ginseng can be taken internally by decocting in soup, or boiling in paste or in pills or powder. Adverse effects such as insomnia, depression, headache, dizziness and palpitation may occur when taking this product in large quantities or for a long period of time. This product is contraindicated for solid and hot symptoms. It should not be used alone for a long period of time for those with yin deficiency, internal heat and abdominal distension.
When taking the Chinese herbal medicine ginseng, it should be reasonably applied under the diagnosis of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, so as to avoid physical discomfort.